Places to go! Rooms to see!

While much information can be gleaned from books and magazines, both modern and "of the period," experiencing actual interiors is invaluable. Admittedly, museum houses and period rooms are static, sometimes artificial in their arrangement, and often devoid of natural light, but photographs, drawings and words, for their part, cannot wholly impart scale, texture, or color relationships.
Some extant Aesthetic Style interiors include the John Bond Trevor Mansion, "Glenview," at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, NY (decorated by the New York decorating firm of Leissner and Louis, Philadelphia cabinetmaker Daniel Pabst, and possibly Kimbel and Cabus, and ); the Cohen-Bray House in Oakland, CA; and the Mark Twain House in Hartford, CT (decorated by Associated Artists, Louis Comfort Tiffany's firm).

The Glessner House in Chicago is probably the premier example of English Arts & Crafts Movement influenced interior design in the United States. Villa Louis in Prairie du Chien, WI, decorated by prominent Chicago decorator Joseph Twyman, is also a very good example, as are several of the bedrooms at Chateau sur Mer in Newport, RI.... for the British prototype, see the Edward Linley Sambourne House in London.
Some Aesthetic interiors have also been removed from their original (now demolished) locations and now "live" in museums as period rooms: the Goodwin Parlor at the Wadsworth Athenaeum in Hartford, CT (decorated by Herter Brothers); and, at the Brooklyn Museum, a smoking room from the John D. Rockefeller House, in New York City. And of course this blog's namesake, James A.M. Whistler's 1876 Peacock Room, for his patron Frederick Leyland, can been seen at the Freer Gallery in Washington, DC.
No list of American Aesthetic movement interiors would be complete without mention of the Seventh Regiment Armory in New York City. Decorated by such luminaries of the field as Associated Artists, Herter Brothers (eight rooms!), Pottier & Stymus, Kimbel and Cabus, Alexander Roux, and Stanford White, the Armory is in the beginning phase of a much-needed restoration effort, and was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1988.
Images:
Mark Twain House [First Floor, Entrance Hall, View of Staircase in Southwest Corner form the North]. HABS image.
The Goodwin Reception Room, by adamgn, under Creative Commons License.
Smoking Room (c. 1880) from the John D. Rockefeller House (4 West 54th Street, New York City. Built 1864-1865; demolished 1938). Photograph © The Brooklyn Museum